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Lily Jenkins wrote a new post on the site Lily Jenkins Animation

Fri, 26 May 2023 11:15:27 +0000

Lily Jenkins C.V. – Animator, Artist, Educator

Employment

August and October 2022: Animation Workshop Leader at Spotlight Youth Theatre

Responsibilities: Designed and provided a 2 day Claymation w […]

Lily Jenkins wrote a new post on the site Lily Jenkins Animation

Fri, 26 May 2023 10:22:58 +0000

I got business cards!

Lily Jenkins wrote a new post on the site Lily Jenkins Animation

Tue, 11 Apr 2023 15:28:41 +0000

Film London do 30k grants for recent graduatesGLAS animation festival have a short support scheme – you can apply for a travel grant to visit the festival. British Film Council also will provide travel grants to […]

Lily Jenkins wrote a new post on the site Lily Jenkins Animation

Tue, 11 Apr 2023 14:46:50 +0000

The main takeaways I got from this event (regarding final film and working in the industry) were:

It’s common for it to take a year or more to build up a regular freelance practiceWhen you have your first few […]

Lily Jenkins wrote a new post on the site Lily Jenkins Animation

Sat, 01 Apr 2023 13:06:25 +0000

I am interested in applying for residencies where I could animate. I like the idea of going somewhere different for a set amount of time and being able to completely focus on one piece of animation. It could also […]

Lily Jenkins wrote a new post on the site Lily Jenkins Animation

Fri, 21 Oct 2022 16:14:17 +0000

this is a link to a fairly long list of studios operating in England. I looked through all the ones in London. It’s from a couple years ago but it seems they mostly all still exist. I ranked them in order of the […]

Lily Jenkins wrote a new post on the site Lily Jenkins Animation

Fri, 21 Oct 2022 16:04:13 +0000

I found this Animation Career Map on the Screen Skills website. I found it useful to help me think of hte kind of roles I would like to do. I think I would enjoy many of the different types of jobs, including […]

Lily Jenkins wrote a new post on the site Lily Jenkins Animation

Fri, 21 Oct 2022 15:58:20 +0000

I came across this Rate Guidance Sheet from the Bectu Union’s website. It shows expected day rates in animation. She Drew That (organisational network of women in animation) posted this as an instagram story, […]

Lily Jenkins wrote a new post on the site Lily Jenkins Animation

Sun, 06 Mar 2022 21:47:55 +0000

For the simulated work experience I was paired up with the second year Ruby Clarke. Ruby was just finishing her animatic when we the simulated work experience began, and I helped her animate some elements of […]

Lily Jenkins wrote a new post on the site Lily Jenkins Animation

Sun, 06 Mar 2022 20:51:20 +0000

“But what I am really interested in is drawing caricature, how far you can push it, seeing if you can achieve something really strong, almost abstract”

(Sylvain Chomet, from an interview with Phillip Moi […]

Lily Jenkins wrote a new post on the site Lily Jenkins Animation

Sun, 06 Mar 2022 20:31:11 +0000

The facial acting and the body acting exercises have been the first time we’ve been explicitly encouraged to use a video reference of ourselves. I used one for the facial acting task, and found it a really […]

Lily Jenkins wrote a new post on the site Lily Jenkins Animation

Fri, 04 Mar 2022 16:07:20 +0000

In a recent physical theatre session with Lydia Baksh we learnt about Konstantin Stanislavski and the 7 questions his acting and character development methodology is based upon. These 7 questions that you must […]

Lily Jenkins wrote a new post on the site Lily Jenkins Animation

Fri, 04 Mar 2022 16:03:33 +0000

Separately to the Animation MA I have been experimenting with cyanotypes (printmaking using chemicals and UV light- I have gone over the process in another post). Today I came across some Muybridge works in a […]

Lily Jenkins wrote a new post on the site Lily Jenkins Animation

Fri, 25 Feb 2022 19:54:04 +0000

We recently had a special effects class with one of our tutors, Christina Nerland. I really really enjoyed it. We did the class in Animate (also a software I really like, it’s nice to use Adobe programs as I […]

Lily Jenkins wrote a new post on the site Lily Jenkins Animation

Wed, 23 Feb 2022 16:41:09 +0000

We had a drawing class on Monday with Vanessa on perspective and I found it really useful. Somehow I’ve never been formally taught it, despite having done a Fine Art degree. I think traditional art education has […]

Lily Jenkins wrote a new post on the site Lily Jenkins Animation

Sun, 13 Feb 2022 15:05:23 +0000

For the quadraped walk cycle exercise I based my character design on drawings I made a while back at Crayford Greyhound Racing Track. Initially I went there to draw as I was often on the look out for unusual […]

Lily Jenkins wrote a new post on the site Lily Jenkins Animation

Sun, 13 Feb 2022 11:54:38 +0000

This is a post about an online lecture I watched by Chris Cray on animating optical illusions. Chris Cray is a CSM Character Animation graduate, and I came across this lecture from following After Hours Animation […]

Lily Jenkins wrote a new post on the site Lily Jenkins Animation

Sun, 13 Feb 2022 09:53:00 +0000

My predominant style of drawing people in the past has been quite line based, loose and expressive. This is partly a result of drawing almost exclusively from observation, often quickly over a matter of […]

Lily Jenkins wrote a new post on the site Lily Jenkins Animation

Tue, 16 Nov 2021 10:41:15 +0000

My first animation. I think the wobbly balloon has good visual comedy.

https://vimeo.com/645969083

Lily Jenkins wrote a new post on the site Lily Jenkins Animation

Tue, 02 Nov 2021 20:45:00 +0000

This was my first go at puppet animation. I used Dragonframe to record it. I made a few videos, the first one looked too stiff, to fix this I gave the hands more expression and followthrough. I think this worked […]

https://vimeo.com/650894401

Lily Jenkins wrote a new post on the site Lily Jenkins Animation

Mon, 01 Nov 2021 12:43:00 +0000

My first go at a bouncing character. I based it off drawings of llamas from Mudchute City Farm. I intend to come back and clean it up in the future.

Lily Jenkins wrote a new post on the site Lily Jenkins Animation

Wed, 29 Sep 2021 13:26:28 +0000

This is a practice